Sunday, October 26, 2008

Hearty Lasagna

We have been watching The Sopranos for the first time. We are just about to start season 2 tonight and I am excited. As some of you may know, in the first season, Carmela makes a lot of baked ziti, lasagna, and other delectable pasta dishes for family dinners and for her priest. Every time we watch an episode, I crave some good, cheesy Italian food.

For some reason, I had no straightforward Italian dishes. My program is filled with all these fancy pasta recipes that I've collected over the years, but for some reason I never bothered to collect the simple ones. So I put out a request on the CLBB and was provided with this recipe. While it calls for meat, soy crumbles were recommended.

I made it with the soy crumbles but otherwise followed the recipe. It bubbled over a little bit while baking, soiling the perfectly-cleaned oven Gibby had toiled away on yesterday, so I felt kind of bad. But then I felt better when a perfect and delicious lasagna emerged. It is absolutely delicious. I love it. I want to eat it forever. Gibby didn't care for it too much but he isn't a fan of lasagna in the first place. But I am satisfied and can now put on tonight's Sopranos DVD with a tummy full of delicious lasagna. And I have a ton of leftovers for the week!